Apparatus, System, and Method of Establishing a Communication Link

1. A method of establishing a communication path between a first terminal and a second terminal, the method comprising: receiving a first call from the first terminal; answering the first call; generating a call establishment request (CER); establishing a second call to the second terminal; forwarding the CER to the second terminal; receiving an acknowledgement from the second terminal; connecting the first call and the second call; wherein the first call is in a first protocol and the second call is in a second protocol, the method including converting the first call and the second call to an intermediate protocol before connecting the first call and the second call, the first protocol being a data format and the second protocol being a voice frequency format.

2. A method of establishing a communication path as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising placing the first call on hold until the acknowledgement is received.

3. A method of establishing a communication path as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising converting the second call in the intermediate protocol to the first protocol for transmission to the first terminal and converting the first call in the intermediate protocol to the second protocol for transmission to the second terminal.

4. A method of establishing a communication path between a first and a second terminal as claimed in claim 1 , the first terminal being a mobile device having location capability, the method including sending a location message derived from the location capability to the second terminal via a redialer.

5. A method of establishing a communication path between a first and a second terminal as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: receiving voice frequency (VF) data information using a first external protocol from either the first or second terminal; converting the VF data information to a data message format; and forwarding the data message via an IP interface to the other of the first or second terminals.

6. A redialer adapted to receive a first call from a first terminal, answer the first call, generate a call establishment request message, establish a second call to a second terminal and forward the call establishment request message (CERM) to the second terminal and connect the first call and the second call after receiving an acknowledgement from the second terminal to the CERM; wherein the first call is in a first protocol and the second call is in a second protocol, the redialer adapted to convert the first call and the second call to an intermediate protocol before connecting the first and second calls, the first protocol being a data format and the second protocol being a voice frequency format.

7. A redialer as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising: at least one network interface; a call manager processor; a call detector; call termination capability adapted to answer a first call; a call establishment request generator (CERG); wherein the call manger processor is adapted to; (a) cause the first call to be answered using the call termination capability; (b) cause the CERG to generate the CERM; (c) establish the second call to the second terminal; (c) forward the CERM to the second terminal; (d) receive the acknowledgement to the CERM from the second terminal; (e) connect the first and second calls.

8. A redialer as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising at least one communication path interface adapted to receive calls in at least one of the first protocol and the second protocol and to convert the first call and the second call to a redialer internal protocol, and to convert outgoing calls from the redialer internal protocol to at least one of the first protocol and the second protocol.

9. A redialer as claimed in claim 8 , further comprising at least two network interfaces; wherein each interface is adapted to facilitate communications using the first protocol and the second protocol.

10. A redialer as claimed in claim 9 , wherein at least one of the network interfaces is an IP interface.

11. A redialer as claimed in claim 7 , further comprising a call termination, and wherein the first call is placed on hold on being answered.

12. A communication system adapted to establish a communication path between a first terminal and a second terminal, the system comprising: a network based redialer as claimed in claim 6 ; wherein the first terminal includes a first communication interface adapted to establish a first communication path with the redialer via at least a first communication network.

13. A communication system as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the network includes a protocol converter adapted to convert calls between the incoming protocol and a second terminal protocol.

14. A mobile device including location capability, the mobile device being adapted to transmit, in response to user activation, a first message to a second terminal via a redialer as claimed in claim 6 , the mobile device being adapted to automatically transmit a location message to the redialer.